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rife
Synonyms and Antonyms of rife
possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified a city government that is rife with malfeasance and corruption Synonyms abounding, abundant, awash, flush, fraught, lousy, replete, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging Related Words brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, filled, full, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed; clogged, congested, overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstuffed, surfeited; alive, animated, astir, bustling, busy, buzzing, humming, lively Near Antonyms bare, barren, blank, devoid, empty, stark, vacant, void; depleted, drained, exhausted; deficient, incomplete, insufficient, short
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